While tea was commonly made from the root bark and young leaves, Native Americans often constructed birch bark canoes, buckets, and baskets. Additionally, the bark has been used to make casts for ...

It is also in close proximity to an urban Native American community in Chicago and near several tribes in the ... you can see a canoe resting along the shore of Lake Michigan, surrounded by pine trees ...

Todd Labrador’s Mi’kmaq family has been building birch bark canoes for generations at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site in Nova Scotia. “At one time when we harvested birch bark ...